1An animal that has a propensity for killing and eating humans.
occasionally, a tiger becomes a man-eater
Example sentencesExamples
We want hyenas and lions and feral pigs and other maneaters!
Isn't that supposed to be a maneater, though?
Taylor killed on one occasion a lion who lost a fore limb in a trap, and the infirmity had turned him into a dangerous man eater.
We've probably got about 10 or 12 species that are incapable of biting people and there are only 3 that have been proven to be maneaters.
A tiger turns into a maneater only under extraordinary situations, like when it grows too infirm or disabled to hunt or when there is a scarcity of its natural prey.
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another term for great white shark
2informal A dominant woman who has many sexual partners.
he obviously imagined that she was some kind of flighty man-eater!
Example sentencesExamples
She is a real maneater - it is as if she is addicted to men and sex and she always had to have a boyfriend.
His character, Darren Silverman, is in the right place at the right time, and thus is able to hook up with the ‘queen of all hotties’, Judith, who turns out to be a maneater.
Fevvers's good-time girl is about a hundred times healthier than Annabel's white-clad, world-fearing maneater.
Definition of man-eater in US English:
man-eater
nounˈmæniːtər
1An animal that has a propensity for killing and eating humans.
occasionally, a tiger becomes a man-eater
Example sentencesExamples
Isn't that supposed to be a maneater, though?
We want hyenas and lions and feral pigs and other maneaters!
We've probably got about 10 or 12 species that are incapable of biting people and there are only 3 that have been proven to be maneaters.
Taylor killed on one occasion a lion who lost a fore limb in a trap, and the infirmity had turned him into a dangerous man eater.
A tiger turns into a maneater only under extraordinary situations, like when it grows too infirm or disabled to hunt or when there is a scarcity of its natural prey.
2informal A dominant woman who has many sexual partners.
he obviously imagined that she was some kind of flighty man-eater!
Example sentencesExamples
His character, Darren Silverman, is in the right place at the right time, and thus is able to hook up with the ‘queen of all hotties’, Judith, who turns out to be a maneater.
She is a real maneater - it is as if she is addicted to men and sex and she always had to have a boyfriend.
Fevvers's good-time girl is about a hundred times healthier than Annabel's white-clad, world-fearing maneater.